Re: [hobbit] URLplus

[Darryl Wisneski <dkw (at) trilegiant.com>]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:19:44AM -0400, Gary Baluha wrote:
> 
>    I haven't checked The Shire in a while, but I think it still has an
>    older version.  I personally haven't been working on URLPlus for a few
>    months (actually, I left the company I was using the script at), but a
>    former coworker of mine has taken the task of updating the code.  I
>    will check with him to see where he's at. Also, I do plan on getting
>    back to developing it, hopefully in the near future (sometime later
>    this year).

Massimo:

What exactly are you looking for out of urlplus?

I am working on changing urlplus to use libcurl instead of the using
the curl command line tool.  Some website monitoring I needed
involved using shared session data (in a nefarious cross-site
scripting way, but that is what our app was doing) and hitting
multiple links on a website with the same initial login authentication
session data.  You can only do the shared cookies/session stuff
with libcurl.

I am using a bare bones perl/libcurl script to do the aforementioned
monitoring now and have not yet plugged it into Gary's urlplus.
Furthermore, given the complexity of what I am trying to do with
shared session login the urlplus configuration file layout has to
be looked at again.

We'll keep the list posted on any progress.

Gary has a 1.22 version laying around but I am not sure what's
changed and it's a year old already.

Regards,
-dkw


> 
>    On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:59 AM, Morsiani, Massimo
>    <[1]massimo.morsiani (at) gilbarco.com> wrote:
> 
>    Hi Gary,
> 
>    is there any new URLPlus version?
>    I'm currently using v1.21 ($Id: url-plus.pl,v 1.21 2008/04/30
>    13:56:07).
> 
>    Thanks.
> 
> 
>    Regards.
> 
>    Massimo Morsiani
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>    From: Gary Baluha [mailto:[4]gumby3203 (at) gmail.com]
>    Sent: mercoledì 30 aprile 2008 16.13
>    To: [5]hobbit (at) hswn.dk
>    Subject: Re: [hobbit] URLplus
>    I have an updated version of URLPLus which supports single-form
>    submissions.
>    I haven't gotten around to being able to submit directly to The Shire,
>    so I'm attaching it here.
>    I've also updated this to do multi-page checking (i.e. full
>    "end-to-end" transaction monitoring), but consider that feature mostly
>    experimental at this time.
>    On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 4:16 AM, Thomas Laurids Pedersen
>    <[6]tlp (at) mach.com> wrote:
> 
>    Would you share the bourne script. I need something quickly for only 1
>    site at the moment, so anything will do.
>    Regards, Thomas
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>    "Ralph Mitchell" <[8]ralphmitchell (at) gmail.com>
>        29-04-2008 22:04
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>    Re: [hobbit] URLplus
>    On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Thomas Laurids Pedersen
>    <[11]tlp (at) mach.com> wrote:
> 
>    Can this new extension do the post like the builtin http test can do ?
>        Regards, Thomas
> 
>    I don't think so, as it currently stands. This line:
>    $ret=qx(curl -m $tout -s -k -S $pstr "$url" 2>&1);
>    in showUrl is the bit that actually fetches the web page. To do a POST
>    using curl, you would need to change that to:
>    $ret=qx(curl -m $tout -s -k -S -d $postArgs $pstr "$url" 2>&1);
>    with matching additions elsewhere to fill the $postArgs variable with
>    whatever you want to post. If you're wanting to implement something
>    that performs a login, you'd probably want to track cookies as well.
>    I'm not much of a perl programmer, so I'm not confident about making
>    such changes. On the other hand, I've done quite a lot of this in
>    Bourne shell...
>    Ralph Mitchell
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